Gabby Pusha December 3‚ 2012 2nd Period “The Hiding Place” Book Report “The Hiding Place” is an autobiography written by Corrie Ten Boom. Boom’s autobiography is about when she and her family were living in a town named Holland in the 1930’s. During this time Nazi violence and hatred towards Jews was increasing rapidly. Many people turned their backs on Jews because they feared for their own lives. Corrie Ten Boom and her family joined the Dutch resistance‚ and helped Jews avoid begin captured
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Old Yeller by Fred Gipson How helpful could be a dog in people’s life? Having pets could be a good chance for people to develop a family‚ especially if the couple can’t birth babies. Also‚ is an opportunity to get a better life with dignity and autonomy. For example‚ the blind can get a dog as their guide‚ and go wherever they need without people supervision. Old Yeller is an interesting and entertaining book because it teaches people about children and teenagers responsibilities‚ what important
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“With The Old Breed” begins with the start of the author’s military career. Eugene Sledge was a freshman at Marion Military institute‚ his family pushing for him to eventually become an officer in the United States Army. But the authors desire to serve his country in battle with the enemy before the war was over was strong enough to make him end his college career and begin anew in the Marine Corps. Already while reading this book I felt closer and more understanding of the‚ because I too left
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The Hiding Place opens in 1937 with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of their watch and repair business‚ now run by the family ’s elderly father‚ Casper. The business took up the ground floor of the family home‚ known as the Beje. Casper lived with his unmarried daughters Corrie‚ the watchmaker‚ and Betsie‚ who took care of the house. It seemed as if everyone in the Dutch town of Haarlem had shown up to the party‚ including Corrie ’s sister Nollie‚ her brother‚ Willem‚ and
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I decided to read this book for two reasons. My friends have read this book in the past and said it wasn’t too bad. Second‚ it is one heck of a short book. I finished this book in 2 days. As the sample book report says‚ this book is only 27‚000 words long. The book lived up to what my friends had said about it. The book was one of the best classic stories I have read‚ it had a good story and good description. Hemingway could paint the pictures in my mind. I have read other shot stories of his‚ back
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Doomsday Book‚ Fact or Fiction? In our day and age‚ movies and novels are passed off by many as history. Movies like Troy‚ U-571‚ and Enemy at the Gates (it can ’t get any worse than that) are historical inaccurate and at times horribly offensive. One must be dubious towards any form of entertainment with historical "facts" put out‚ be it a book or a movie. On the contrary‚ Connie Willis does a relatively good job of portraying the past in the Doomsday Book. She writes about traveling in time to
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Willis’s Life and Accomplishments Bruce Willis is a famous actor who was born in West Germany and raised in Penns Grove‚ New Jersey. Bruce is known for being in action movies with lots of combat. Bruce Willis has won many awards including The Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 1999 and 2000. Some other awards Bruce has won are The People’s Choice Award‚ The Golden Globe‚ and many more. Bruce Willis achieved many great roles in movies and eventually got
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Running Head: Between Barak and a Hard Place Book Report Barak and a Hard Place Book Report Ruth Amador Park University – Human Diversity and Social Justice- Professor Esther Palma Race has always been and continues to be a serious and subtle matter in our nation. Racial inequities are explored in Between Barack and a Hard Place‚ by Tim Wise‚ one of the countrie’s most aclaimmed white antiracist activists and educators in the United States. In this book Tim Wise explains how Barack Obama
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an hour of cardio at least three times a week. I have a gym in my house in Los Angeles and a gym trailer that I can take on the road with me when I’m on location. At my house there’s a very long steep driveway. I do wind sprints that kick my 50-year-old ass. It’s part of my job. I have come to associate working out as work. Whenever I don’t have to do it for films‚ I kind of slack off. I am a sensitive guy. People think they know the real me‚ but they don’t. And then they write things that make
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The book has been boxed up and stacked under piles of newspaper and junk for what seems like decades. Its corners are pealed and the edges have been sequentially been curved inward. It has evidently gathered dust and there are endless dust bunnies surrounding this pyramid of senile possessions. I opened the book to check if the inside looks as abandoned as the cover‚ it does not in fact‚ it looks as if it has never been opened before. And the smell has changed a bit. I press my nose to the centre
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